A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



to the river, stands west of the mill. Chilland House 

 is in the north-east, close to the main road from 

 Winchester to Alresford. The soil of the whole 

 parish is clay loam with a subsoil of chalk, and the 

 chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, and turnips. 



The place-name 'Ashdoun,' not now traceable, 

 occurs in an Exchequer Deposition of 1 7 1 6.' 



There are several entries 

 MANORS relating to land at WORTHT 



in Anglo-Saxon charters, but "~ 



as there are five Worthies in Hampshire, 

 all situated within a few miles of one 

 another, identification is difficult. The 

 ' land at Worthy ' mentioned in the grant 

 made by King Egbert to the monastery 

 of St. Peter and St. Paul at Winchester 

 in 825 * is probably Martyr Worthy, for 

 among the boundaries mentioned are Igtun 

 (possibly Avington), Easton, and the high 

 road to Alresford ; and of all the Worthies 

 Martyr Worthy lay nearest to these three 

 places. It is not mentioned in the Domes- 

 day Survey. It remained part of the 

 possessions of the prior and monks of 

 St. Swithun's, who in 1205, and again 

 in 1285, obtained a confirmation of their 

 ownership of land at Worthy. 4 In 1251 

 the prior dealt with the manor and 

 advowson, 4 and by a charter of 1284, 

 confirmed by Edward I in 1285, the bishop quit- 

 claimed for himself and his successors all right in 

 the manor. 6 Martyr Worthy remained in the hands 

 of the prior and convent until the Dissolution, 7 after 

 which the manor was granted to the dean and 

 chapter of Winchester. 8 



The manor must have been sold by the dean and 

 chapter during the eighteenth century to the family of 

 Sheldon, probably to the William Sheldon who in 

 1728 owned part of the manor of Bereleigh, in East 

 Meon (q.v.). In 1773 his grandson Edward Sheldon 

 sold Martyr Worthy to Sir Chaloner Ogle, bart., 

 whose successor, Sir Charles Ogle, bart., built a man- 

 sion here in 1820, which he sold five years later, 

 together with the manorial rights, to Mr. Samuel 

 Wall. The latter died" before 

 1848, being followed by Mr. 

 G. A. E. Wall, who was still 

 holding in 1875. Between 

 this latter date and 1 880 the 

 manor passed to Capt. C. G. 

 Fryer, the present owner. 



There seem to be only two 

 separate references to the tith- 

 ing of CHILLAND, which 

 was usually included in Mar- 

 tyr Worthy. 9 In 1 763 William 

 Dale and his wife Elizabeth 

 conveyed the so-called manor 



of Chilland to Philippa Venables, and in 1789 

 Elizabeth Gale (possibly Dale), widow, sold it to John 

 Doswell." 



The church of ST. SfTITHUN has an 

 CHURCH apsidal chancel of twelfth-century style 

 built in 1865, a nave 46ft. by 17 ft. 

 6 in., and a wooden bell-turret at the west. The nave 

 dates from c. 1 140-50, its north and south doorways 

 being original work. The north doorway is some- 

 what more richly treated than the south, and though 



OGLE. ^Urgent a Jesse 

 between three crescents 

 piles. 



MARTYR WORTHY CHURCH 



not now the principal entrance, may at one time have 

 been so. It is roundheaded, of two orders with jamb- 

 shafts, the outer order having a line of horizontal 

 zigzag with a label of billet ornament, while the inner 

 is plain, and the capitals are carved with simple 

 foliage. The south doorway has a label with hatched 

 ornament, a moulded outer order, and a plain inner 

 order ; on its east jamb is cut a large cross, perhaps 

 a consecration cross. East of this doorway is an 

 original window retaining its semicircular rear arch, 

 but with a cinquefoiled light of fifteenth-century style, 

 of modern stonework, in place of its former opening. 

 On the north side of the nave is a window corre- 

 sponding to this, but entirely modern, the twelfth- 

 century rear arch and the fifteenth-century light being 

 alike copied in the new work. Towards the east end 

 of the nave are two-light fifteenth-century windows 

 on north and south, with renewed tracery, and there 

 is another two-light window in the west wall, with a 

 cinquefoil in the head. At the south-east of the nave 

 is a piscina with a groove for a shelf. 



Over the east end of the nave the roof is of lower 

 pitch than elsewhere, with plain heavy timbers in two 

 bays with carved bosses at the intersections and a 

 moulded wall-plate of fifteenth-century style. This 

 appears to be an example of a ceiling over the rood. 



The bell-turret dates from 1871, and contains 

 three bells, the treble an early sixteenth-century bell 

 with Roger Landon's marks, inscribed ' Sancte Luce 

 or.'; the second of 1632, inscribed in black-letter 

 smalls, ' In God is my hope ' ; and the tenor, with 

 the same inscription in Gothic capitals, of 1 68 1 



' Exch. Dcp. 3 Geo. I, No. 7. 



8 Birch, Cart. Sax. i, 539. This after- 

 wards became known as the priory of St. 

 Swithun. 



4 Cal. of Paf. Letters, i, 21 ; Cal. of 

 Chart. R. 1257-1300, p. 288. 



Feet of F. Hants, 35 Hen. Ill, No. 

 389. 



6 Chart. R. 13 Edw. I, m. 27. 



' Inq. p.m. 9 Edw. Ill (2nd nos.), No. 



55- 



8 Pat. 33 Hen. VIII, pt. 9, m. 34-40. 

 In 1557 a mansion house with barns and 

 stable, being the property of ' Robarte 

 Daye, husbandman, and Jane his wife of 

 Marten Wourdye,' was burnt to the ' utter 



326 



discomforde and undoynge' of the said 

 Day, his wife, and six children, who are 

 commended to the charity of all Christian 

 people. Anct. D. (P.R.O.), A. 6471. 



' Pat. 33 Hen. VIII, pt. 9, m. 34- 

 40. 



" Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 4 Geo. III. 



Ibid. Mich. 29 Geo. III. 



